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Grand Canyon Geology: Two Billion Years of Earth's History
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J. Michael Timmons;
J. Michael Timmons
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA
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Karl E. Karlstrom
Karl E. Karlstrom
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001, USA
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Geological Society of America

Volume
489
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© 2012 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813724898
Publication date:
November 01, 2012
Book Chapter
Faulting and uplift in the Grand Cany on region
Author(s)
Karl E. Karlstrom
;
Karl E. Karlstrom
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001, USA
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J. Michael Timmons
J. Michael Timmons
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA
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Published:November 01, 2012
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Arizona
- Cenozoic
- Coconino County Arizona
- Colorado Plateau
- Colorado River
- compression tectonics
- extension tectonics
- faults
- Grand Canyon
- Laramide Orogeny
- lithostratigraphy
- Miocene
- Mohave County Arizona
- Neogene
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- reactivation
- stress
- syntectonic processes
- tectonics
- tectonostratigraphic units
- Tertiary
- United States
- Unkar Group
- uplifts
- upper Precambrian
- Tonto Group
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